Lamar Bunn, an officer with the Milner Police Department, and his mother, 58-year-old Sandra Bunn, were charged with obstruction.

Gregory Huffman, a detention officer with the Spalding County Sheriff’s Office, was charged with a violation of the oath of office and obstruction.

“I really can’t get into a lot detail about what [the law enforcement officers] did,” Dix said. “But what they did was enough that it hindered the investigation and caused us to feel like these people need to pay for what they’re doing.”

Dix says the murder appears to have been motivated by race, and would be prosecuted as a hate crime had it happened today.